Summer 2011 Conference Talks

The Open Source Bridge conference
takes place in downtown Portland, Oregon on 21 June through 24 June. This is a
great mixture of real free software and open source projects with a particular
focus on the community and small business aspects of organization and
collaboration. My Modern
Perl Made Painless shows off some of the most important libraries and
extensions in the Perl 5 world of 2011 to help you accomplish more with less
work and greater confidence.

YAPC::NA 2011 runs from 27 June
through 01 July in Asheville, North Carolina (with hackathons and training
classes the final two days). YAPCs are all homegrown, Perl-specific
conferences. If I could attend only one conference, it would be a YAPC. This is
the best place to meet and work with (some of) the world's best Perl
programmers, documentors, implementors, and enthusiasts. My Modern Advocacy for Modern
Perl reflects on two years of people talking about Perl's renaissance, the
enlightenment of Perl programmers, and how a program written to take advantage
of the modern releases of Perl 5 should behave. With all of the wonderful
things in the Perl world right now, how can we convince our friends,
colleagues, and clients that Perl is a great choice?

I'm working on a couple of contracts right now and hope to announce a new
crop of books by then. (I may also bring a box of Modern Perl: the
book at a special conference price if there's interest.) Even if you don't
care about any of that, if Portland or Asheville are within easy travel
distance of you, I encourage you to consider either or both conference as a
great training and social experience.